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djkatatonic's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
frasedogga's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
rebus's review against another edition
3.25
It's not my favorite by Morrison but might improve with a 2nd or 3rd read. It's a bit too obscure and surreal through most of the chapters, though it does come together neatly in the end and Morrison makes his thematic points well. It just takes far too long to get up to speed and I felt the 4th chapter could have been eliminated completely.
It's a tale of an empty culture full of Anti-Persons and a fascist Dredd-like police state that tries to maintain the status quo.
It's not terrible, but I feel this sort of thing is starting to become cliche in the world of comics and was done better by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman back then and is probably being done better now by Garth Ennis.
It's a tale of an empty culture full of Anti-Persons and a fascist Dredd-like police state that tries to maintain the status quo.
It's not terrible, but I feel this sort of thing is starting to become cliche in the world of comics and was done better by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman back then and is probably being done better now by Garth Ennis.
yukbon's review against another edition
5.0
A standalone companion piece to Morrisson's The Invisibles, The Filth -- slang for both pornography and the police -- is a psychedelic meta pomo mess, and I mean that as a high grade compliment. Read it today.
danadanger's review against another edition
4.0
all i can do lately is read grant morrison. there are worse things, i guess. enjoying this so far.
inarticulateblog's review against another edition
2.0
I wish I liked this more than I did, because I usually like Grant Morrison's writing. I think I see what it was going for and there were snippets where it made narrative sense, but it just never came together and left me with a feeling that it was in its own ass a bit too much. Likely was not for me, nor did I have the impression that it was written for me to enjoy. I'm cool with that. I wouldn't let it put me off reading anything else by the guy, but I can't help thinking this is what you get when someone gets to the point where no one wants to insult them by suggesting they edit their work for coherency.
shea_proulx's review against another edition
2.0
The plot was incomprehensible, and the characters were unrelatable - other reviewers have said as much. I want to add that, for a comic that features soooooo many massive tight-shirted and bare titties (and even an unexplained captive woman in a tank who seems immobile under the weight of like a dozen double DDs), it somehow utterly fails the Bechdel test (no female characters with names ever speak to eachother about something other than a man). I love a weird sexy romp, but the female characters are only used to move the plot along. Combined with a heavy-metal aesthetic that reeks of pointless objectification, the lack of individualized female characters with motivations not revolving around Greg Feely feels incredibly dated. Why does one of them even offer blow jobs to try to get him to do his job? What a waste of awesome artwork.
colophonphile's review against another edition
Read it again, following up a discussion of author Grant Morrison's disappointing Return of Bruce Wayne.
To be frank, The Filth was even less coherent than I had remembered: a rambling tale that veers this way and that about a secret policing organization, a story that seems to be critiquing the mind-numbing violence, sexualization, and incoherence of consumerist culture by creating a consumable object that consists of mind-numbing, incoherent depictions of sex and violence. Its excited flaunting of the veneer of heteronormal sexuality is undermined by the fact that its depiction of women consists almost solely of Barbie doll figures (albeit occasionally bald as a Vulcan dominatrix).
There are meta-asides to comics as a form struggling to break through its own self-contained borders, in which the divide between drawn page and physical reality is crumbled and each bends slightly into the other. There's no particular logic to it, though, just a spew of ideas. Its apparent underlying critique of superheroism is undermined by Morrison's later and earlier fine execution of superhero comics.
The series' covers (when it was first published, as a baker's dozen of pamphlets), though, remain one of the best things a mainstream comics publisher has ever produced. Beautiful stuff. If only the storytelling enacted the rigor its wrapper promised.
To be frank, The Filth was even less coherent than I had remembered: a rambling tale that veers this way and that about a secret policing organization, a story that seems to be critiquing the mind-numbing violence, sexualization, and incoherence of consumerist culture by creating a consumable object that consists of mind-numbing, incoherent depictions of sex and violence. Its excited flaunting of the veneer of heteronormal sexuality is undermined by the fact that its depiction of women consists almost solely of Barbie doll figures (albeit occasionally bald as a Vulcan dominatrix).
There are meta-asides to comics as a form struggling to break through its own self-contained borders, in which the divide between drawn page and physical reality is crumbled and each bends slightly into the other. There's no particular logic to it, though, just a spew of ideas. Its apparent underlying critique of superheroism is undermined by Morrison's later and earlier fine execution of superhero comics.
The series' covers (when it was first published, as a baker's dozen of pamphlets), though, remain one of the best things a mainstream comics publisher has ever produced. Beautiful stuff. If only the storytelling enacted the rigor its wrapper promised.
deeoh's review against another edition
Library took it back, left off on ch 5, the pornomancer